Courses

Architecture Immersion Studio

The Architecture Immersion Studio is an introduction to the key ideas, techniques, and concepts in Architecture and Landscape. Open to students 18+, from current undergraduates to mid-career professionals, the course is suitable for anyone interested in a focused introduction to the discipline. Taught by faculty from Graduate Architecture, Landscape Architecture, and Urban Design, students will emerge with a command of essential skills and a small body of work suitable for use as the foundation for a graduate application portfolio.

June 29, 2026 to July 23, 2026, Higgins Hall North
June 29, 2026 to July 23, 2026, Higgins Hall North

Certificate Course in Exhibition Design

Learn to design and document an exhibition from concept to installation. Focus on creating interpretive environmental experiences that include storytelling, sustainability and environmental design. Complete and present an exhibition design proposal with models, photographs and drawings of original work toward a portfolio.

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Editorial Illustration

Learn the nuts and bolts of editorial illustration and create images for editorial publications through hands-on projects. From conceptual financial articles to book reviews, you'll wear both the illustrator and art director hats. Understand how to navigate commission-based work while building a portfolio of beautiful editorial illustrations.

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Adobe After Effects

Dive into After Effects' tools to discover this powerful application's potential for digital artists interested in 2D and 3D animation.

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Adobe InDesign

Adobe InDesign is the leading layout design software for print and digital media. Explore the vast capabilities of InDesign and develop portfolio pieces focused on composition, typography, and publication design.

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Advanced Interiors: Function & Style

Learn how to identify popular styles in decor, customize and specify materials for a project, and formulate a budget. Go on a journey to discover how to develop an existing space by understanding human behavior, applying everyday function into a design, while using scale and proportion. Focus on basic color theory and the customization of furniture and decor.

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Advanced Perfumery

Advance your skill level in this course, which is a continuation of the Technique and Language of Perfumery course, PMPF 310. Improve your olfaction skills, master fragrance classification, memorize key raw materials and their illustration in market products, and develop your perfumery culture.

June 23, 2026 to July 9, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

AutoCAD Advanced

Replicate a professional workflow and build upon concepts introduced in Introduction to AutoCAD through hands-on exercises that explore how to refine 2D production drawings.

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Book Illustration: Picture Book

Learn the art of illustrating a story idea and how to make your art work in the versatile picture book format. Concentrate on elements that can help you develop the tools you need. Learn about the business and the physical process of creating a picture book.

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Brand Design and Corporate Identity

Learn the craft of brand expression and how it flows from brand strategy and business objectives to perception in the minds of consumers and the public at large.

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Certificate Course in AI Design

Reimagine design work in the age of AI. Enhance your design approach by seamlessly integrating the latest AI-tools and methods for research, idea generation, and project execution. Merge your current skills with Generative AI skills through best practices and newly developed design methodologies. You will learn to craft AI prompts for maximum results, incorporate AI into your design workflows, and improve the human-machine experience as it relates to responsibility, equity, and safety.

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Certificate Course in Human-Centered Design

Go beyond traditional UX and digital interfaces with Pratt SCPS's Human-Centered Design Certificate. Equip yourself with the skills to deeply understand user needs, rethink challenges, and craft innovative solutions across industries-whether in services, management frameworks, or physical and digital experiences.

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Color Theory In Practice

Discover how to deploy color theory effectively in a professional design or fine art setting. Receive one-on-one guidance in learning to mix colors and combine colors to achieve a variety of visual effects with an understanding of the science behind it. Develop your own understanding of color relationships and tonal values through creative projects, assignments, and class discussions.

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Content Direction I: Personal Vision and Commercial Practice

Explore the drivers, priorities, and processes that shape individual proactive visual practice through contemporary and historical examples. Discover how personal perspectives can inform commercial practice and learn about the creative role of collaboration when making work, and the impacts of different distribution channels in spreading ideas to a broader audience.

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Design Ideation and Research

Explore the methods, process, and culture used to develop creative ideas while solving problems facing individuals, groups, businesses and society at large-primarily through a structured approach to product innovation.

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Designing with Intelligent Systems

As AI transforms the landscape of product design, today's designer must balance creative intent with technological fluency. This advanced course builds on a foundational understanding of Figma and introduces students to AI-assisted design, where automation, logic, and creativity intersect.

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Digital Marketing

Gain the skills needed to excel in digital marketing. From social media marketing and content marketing to programmatic advertising and online press release distribution, this course covers it all. Explore essential areas such as display advertising, search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, YouTube), influencer marketing, and AI.

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Event Marketing

Unlock the power of event marketing to build meaningful connections, elevate your brand, and achieve measurable results. This dynamic course equips you with the tools and strategies to design and execute events that captivate audiences, generate valuable leads, and deliver exceptional ROI for stakeholders. Transform events into platforms for one-on-one engagement, brand awareness, and product education. Whether you're organizing an intimate gathering or a high-profile conference, this course provides the expertise to craft unforgettable experiences that deliver real value and lasting impact.

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Fashion Immersion Studio

Build foundational skills in sewing, patterning, and draping while learning the vocabulary used in the making of fashion, clothing, and soft goods. This course provides an overview of various needle arts, including machine and hand sewing, as well as pattern making. Students will gain the fundamental skills in the industrial straight, overlock, purl, cover stitch and zigzag machines, industrial pressing equipment, as well as fundamental patternmaking skills.

August 10-20, 2026, Steuben Hall

Figma for UX/UI

Figma is the industry-leading tool for UX and UI design-built for collaboration, speed, and innovation. Learn how to design user-centered experiences by creating essential deliverables like sitemaps, wireframes, high-fidelity mockups and clickable prototypes.

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Fragrance Creation Workshop

Engage in an intensive exploration of the fundamental concepts related to a wide range of fragrance product types. Discover how to compose a fragrance and the industry standard rules and methodologies. Learn about olfaction (the sense of smell) and study the importance of olfactory tenacity and intensity by practicing the basics of the olfactive pyramid.

July 21-23, 2026, Pratt Manhattan
July 21-23, 2026, Online

Integrated Advertising Campaigns - a Creative Focus

Delve into the creative and design aspects of developing impactful integrated advertising campaigns. Explore the principles, strategies, and techniques that drive successful campaign creation and execution. Through theoretical discussions, case studies, hands-on projects, and guest lectures from industry professionals, you will develop creative thinking, visual communication, and design skills to craft compelling and cohesive campaigns across various media channels.

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Interiors For The Beginner

Familiarize yourself with the skills, terminology, and techniques professional interior designers utilize to develop a space from initial idea to finished design. Learn how to present your designs to clients.

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Introduction to Architectural and Mechanical Drafting

Learn the fundamentals of drafting: the tools, techniques and principals. Create basic drafts of floor plans, elevations, sections, details, and isometric projections. Understand how drafting skills translate to today's basic 2D/3D digital software packages (i.e. AutoCAD, Revit, Inventor, etc.)

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Introduction to AutoCAD

Begin with basic tools and concepts that enable you to create and edit simple drawings; then move on to more advanced tools. Explore the AutoCAD workspace and user interface. Finish with a production drawing that's ready to print.

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Introduction to Drawing

Learning to see, perception, and the art of drawing. In this exciting course we will explore many media, methods and styles of drawing. This is an excellent foundation course for making art and will power-up your creativity.

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Introduction to Graphic Design

Study the foundation of graphic design as a communication tool and learn the importance of graphic design as an informative and promotional presence in commerce and society.

June 30, 2026 to July 23, 2026, Online

Introduction to Illustrator

Adobe Illustrator is the premier program in the graphic design industry for vector drawing. Create smooth-lined, clean, scalable graphics for both print and the Web. Develop portfolio pieces.

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Introduction to Photoshop

Learn the tools and develop techniques in Adobe Photoshop, the premier image-editing program used by professionals for image/photo color correction, retouching, compositing, and more. Gain the skills and confidence to work with this versatile program. Develop portfolio pieces.

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Introduction to Typography

Learn how to design typography for optimal reading, communication hierarchy, and graphic impact through a variety of real-world assignments and exercises.

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Metalworking

Explore metalworking as an art form and examine the techniques of welding, brazing, soldering, bending, cutting, forging, and drilling. Create and construct a small sculpture by the culmination of class.

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Painting and Drawing

Unlock your creativity! Utilize sketches as an inspiration to create a portfolio of paintings. Using a series of ongoing drawings and sketchbook entries, we will turn our diary-style entries into paintings. Focus on either the natural world, abstraction, or something in-between. Create a series of artworks based on our personal aesthetic experiences.

July 6-31, 2026, Pratt Manhattan

Photographic Composition

Analyze the challenges and potential solutions involved in photographical composition. Investigate how photographers say what they say based primarily on ideas suggested in the seminal writing on photography, John Szarkowski's The Photographer's Eye.

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Purpose-Driven Marketing

The health and wellness market is projected to reach nine trillion USD in 2028. Develop a purpose-driven advertising campaign where it matters most in the global economy of human health and wellness. What's the secret behind Cannes Award-winning campaigns like Dove's Real Beauty or Spotify's Take a Beat? Find out step by step as you build your own showcase portfolio piece. All you need to bring is your imagination and a passion to inspire change and drive action.

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RHINO: Computer Aided Design and 3-D

This course is designed for the computer-aided design (CAD) novice. Through a series of hands-on exercises and projects, students will experience fundamental digital tools suitable for the design, modeling, and production of small products. The assignments and projects will center around digital 3D design on a computer. All of the skills learned can be applied to many product categories and a wide range of industries

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Spatial Design

Create impactful designs for your portfolio based on real-world challenges. Develop a core skill-set to express ideas, address cultural concerns and make informed interior design choices. Through in-class exercises that involve engaging with objects in space, you'll be guided through a professional interior design process that introduces basic CAD design, using SketchUp and Revit.

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The Future of Food: Design, Innovation, and Food Culture

Explore how designers, artists, entrepreneurs, and cultural innovators are shaping the future of food through storytelling, experimentation, and emerging design practices. This course examines the intersection of food, branding, experience design, media, community engagement, and cultural production. Through case studies, guest speakers, field research, and hands-on projects, students will develop skills in creative concept development, visual communication, trend forecasting, research, and critical analysis while learning to apply design thinking to real-world food-related challenges.

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The Technique and Language of Perfumery

Experience a voyage into the world of perfumes, test your sense of smell, and review the whole fragrance process from concept to market product.

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Video Editing: Premiere Pro

Edit footage and tell your stories. Learn the aesthetics of video editing by connecting sequences and applying color corrections, special effects, and graphics.

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